JDog Posted April 21, 2015 Report Share Posted April 21, 2015 My daily grind at the moment does not allow me to get out and shoot. The violent shaking I am feeling must be withdrawal symptoms. However I do allow myself an hour in the afternoons to 'take the dogs out' and under that pretext I have been driving round the Wolds looking for pigeons. What I have found within a five mile radius of home is a great many fields with beans sprouting through the ground. This must be something to do with the new regulations about expanding the number of crops that farmers have to grow. Without having counted the fields I guess that there must have been thirty, maybe more. Someone, maybe me if I can ever get on, may have decent shooting at harvest time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted April 21, 2015 Report Share Posted April 21, 2015 Yes lots of beans and peas about this year , I am not sure if that will be good thing or not as the pigeon can only be feeding on a limited amount of fields in good numbers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motty Posted April 21, 2015 Report Share Posted April 21, 2015 I have many bean fields to shoot this year. I would like to think I may get some good sport on at least one of them. But as FB mentioned, more fields = more choice = possible fewer birds concentrated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted April 21, 2015 Report Share Posted April 21, 2015 You may well be right Mr JDog , and I am sure if there are pigeons using them in any numbers you have got the knowhow to seek out the land owners and fill yer boots when the time arrive ( if it arrive at all ) One thing for certain , a pigeon would have to be very unlucky to die of starvation nowadays . Take our estate for instance ,in the last 3 or 4 years there gone back into growing rape , this year growing 200 odd acres of Peas after giving them up a few years back , growing Wheat on what was grazing land down the marsh ( as they went out of cattle ) , reduced the margins around the fields and put back any wasted land back into growing crops . So it comes down to a lot more land for the pigeon population in your area to dine on, making it a lot more challenging for the ones like us to get it right and to be in the right field when we do go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted April 21, 2015 Report Share Posted April 21, 2015 We have seven farms that have decided the grow peas this year to keep within the guidelines as previously only one has grow peas. I believe that the pigeon population locally will benefit from this crop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yickdaz Posted April 21, 2015 Report Share Posted April 21, 2015 We have seven farms that have decided the grow peas this year to keep within the guidelines as previously only one has grow peas. I believe that the pigeon population locally will benefit from this crop.A certain pigeon shooter might also benefit from them no names mentioned like 😉No beans or peas in sight around here and I don't understand why I thought it compulsory to grow one of them on every farm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted April 21, 2015 Report Share Posted April 21, 2015 A certain pigeon shooter might also benefit from them no names mentioned like No beans or peas in sight around here and I don't understand why I thought it compulsory to grow one of them on every farm Not compulsary as far as I am aware , they just have to grow x amount of different crops to gain a certain subsidy . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredwalton Posted April 22, 2015 Report Share Posted April 22, 2015 When do the beans get harvested as where I shoot part of the field is rape and part of it is bean? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penelope Posted April 22, 2015 Report Share Posted April 22, 2015 Sept/Oct. Generally the last crop to be harvested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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